Détection de conflits dans les communautés épistémiques en ligne (Conflicts detection in online epistemic communities) [in French]

Conflicts detection in online epistemic communities Conflicts in online epistemic communities can be a blocking factor when producing knowledge. We present a way to automatically detect conflict in Wikipedia discussions, based on subjectivity and connotation marks. Two rules are evaluated : a local rule that uses the structure of the discussion threads, connotation and subjectivity marks and a global rule that takes the whole thread into account and only subjectivity. We show that the two rules produce similar results but that the simplicity of the global rule makes it a preferred approach to detect conflicts.